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STATION NEWS AND LATEST LISTENING COMPILED FROM ENIGMA
MONITOR REPORTS IN BRITAIN EUROPE AND WORLDWIDE

ENGLISH LANGUAGE STATIONS
LINCOLNSHIRE POACHER

Transmission continue daily from ;

10.00 to 14.00 on 15682 (or 15610) 1448” 5 IcTr-

15.00 to 17.00 on 11545 13375 & 12603

18.00 to 22.00 on any three of the following

6485 6959 7337 9251 10426 12=77

Signal strength on some of the 18.00 to 22 . : 7 ~= -re improved
considerably and modulation quality is rare i = - = A!*-' - this

may suggest a different transmitter sice i= some

transmissions.

With the move to Summer it is possible thac '-“a siation may
move to higher frequencies, others previous.. = "=• ;

16475 19452 20306 and 23411, Jamming continues :: affect a

large proportion of daily transmissions .

LINCOLNSHIRE POACHER TWO

An addition format using a new interval sig's. r_~. i~e same
voice format has recently started transm: s = ; : “ a . initial
operating patterns are still to be established i"- ■

10.00 to 12.00 on 19884 & 20474 d 0\<x/v*e\.s

19.00 to 21.00 on 7484 «r 8320

Jamming on the high frequencies has already stagier, T 484
suffers severe interference from Radio Pakista - close

down around 20.30. All logs of this new service are rec.:-ed.
The maximum transmitters of both service s in use s' any
time is 5. Signals are much weaker in Britain than t-=
Lincolnshire Poacher broadcasts.

THREE FIGURE ENGLISH

Still heard Monday to Friday and on alternative Satafcav or
Sunday s on a frequency between 9265 and 9292 kHz, ca. - 274

broadcast start at 08.20. AWsso-gus ^r'°^ ^cvu\^

MVva ~ \ ^

READY READY

Operating on a rolling schedule this static" is often =a^d to
find - we have recently confirmed that transmissions are
repeated 20 minutes after the first broadcast on a different
f requency .

19.00 on Monday 4740
20.30 on Monday 4740

22.00 on Wednesday 5235

repeat not found

repeated at 20.50 on 4460 kHz

repeated at 22.20 on 4740 kHz

OplrWriS A\on a. ch v C A /vf .

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PHONETIC ALPHABET STATIONS

Transmissions

from this vast network

continue on a wide

frequency spread 24 hours

per day

, Based on listener reports

we present

the most up to

da, te

information available on

stations heard in 1994.

m ay well find

The times

given are a

guide

and

you

transmissions

at other times

•

FREQUFNCY

CALLSIGN

REPOR

TED AT

2120

CI0/MI.W

2245

0045

2270

JSR

1930

2000

2030

O S 1 s

VLB /M I W

2045

214 5

004 5

014 5

2628

FT J

2030

2100

2215

oooo

2743

iJLX .

1900

2100

0030

0 1 00

SYN

2030

2130

7150

PCD/ART

1900

2000

2030

2100 2230 2330 +

3270

KPA

2015

2115

2215

3419

ART

1900

1930

2030

2100 2200 2330 +

3640

VLB

1945

3840

YHF

1730

2000

2030

2100 2200 2300 +

4165

SYN

2330

2 130

22-30

4270

PCD

2000

2030

2100

2200 2230 2300 +

4360

CIO

1645

1745

1945

2145 2345 0045 +

4463

FT J

1630

1730

2000

2100 2200 2300 +

4560

YHF

1630

2000

2030

2100 2330

4780

KPA/ULX

2115

0015

0 115

4663

VLB/ YHF

1745

1945

2345

0145

4880

ULX

1630

1700

1800

1900 2030 2100 +

5091

JSR

1600

1800

1930

2030 2100 2200 +

5230

VLB/MI W

1545

1745

2045

2145 2345 0145

5339

OEM

16.30 Very rare call- sign.

5473

ART

1700

2000

2030

2100 2200 2300 +

5629

SYN

1630

1730

2030

2230 0030 0130

5820

YHF

1600

1630

0000

6270

ULX /YHF

1500

1600

0700

6500

PCD

1600

0700

6745

VLB/CIO

1545

1645

1745

2045 2145 2345 +

6840

EZI

2000

2230

0100

6912

OEM

1630

Very

rare

call sign. txxyL'v,*.

7323

777

0600

siaiA/

fre.c\ .

7445

KPA

1615

1715

2215

0015 0715

7540

JSR

0700

0730

7605

VLB/MI W

1445

1745

0745

-sign — last Kexarxi ec\

7613

GPO

Very

rare

call-

7760

ULX

1600

0700

0730

7918

YHF

1600

1800

0900

8127

SYN

1545

1630

2045

2130 2345 0045 +

8465

CIO/SYN

1600

2045

2230

2330 0030 0130 +

8641

MIW

.1615

1715

1915

2115 2215 2315 +

9130

EZI

1500

1630

2100

2200 2230

9402

???

0830

•frexv

10125

CIO

1445

1545

1745

2045 2145 2345 +

10352

VLB/SYN

0700

0730

0830

0930 1030

10648

YHF

0930

1045 1145 1245 +

10820

VLB

0745

0845

0945

10970

M I W

0815

0915

1015

1115 1215 1415 +

57*5

ZwL

very

rare

£y<Li\\r^, tfcxyfiAat.

3

PHONETIC ALPHABET STATIONS continued.

11565

EZI

1000

1800

2100

2200

0100

12747

SYN

12950

MIW

0715

0815

0915

1415

1615

0615

13533

EZI

1000

1300

1700

13921

CIO

0745

0845

1445

1545

14750

MIW

0615

0715

0915

1115

1215

1415

15980

EZI

1300

2100

17170

CIO

17410

EZI

0830

0930

1100

1130

1300

1700

17966

CI0/SYN

0745

0845

1445

18178

MIW

0615

0715

0915

19715

EZI

0830

0930

HOO

1 200

20425 ???
20740 SYN
23195

+ indicates traffic continues at interval a-.r- -coed times.

Frequency list by Call Sign order with st arcing times after
the hour.

ART

0000

□N THE

HOUR 0030

MINUTES PAST -r_=

CIO

0000

004 5

EZI

0000

0030

FT

0000

0030

JSR

0000

0030

KPA

0000

0015

MIW

0000

0045

OEM

0030

PCD

0000

0030

SYN

0000

0030

UL X

0000

0030

VLB

0000

0045

YHF

0000

0030

(/Mt/veup Qatari fo use cx 1 Suffix)

Z WL

0006

These are

the

times 1

you are likely to hear the t ^a~ smi ss i ons

s tar ting „

The

call

signal is

sent prior to the message.

Remember

that

i f the

call sign

only is sent CIO CIO CIO a

message will follow,

CIO 1 CIO

1 CIO 1 indicates a test and

for example CIO 2 CIO 2 CIO 2 means no message -’.ill follow,
we are however uncertain as to the meaning of 3 's and 4 's
which sometimes suffix call letters . 5s Ss 3s, SS \s <dtc .

We have recently received the results of direction finding
readings taken on two of the higher frequencies, 10648 and
13921 kHz, Reading indicate that these particula- frequencies
are transmitted from a location in Israel.

We would we 1 come repor ts on these stations and perhaps you may
be able to fill in some of the missing frequencies and call
signs. I believe this is the most comprehensive list of
Phonetic Alphabet stations published for some years and we are
most grateful to the following contributors for the help we
have received, Richard in #####, Keith in Bognor Regis, Brian
in Cr aw ley and Fritz in Switzerland plus a number of o t her
readers who sent in information concerning these stations.

4

MYSTERY STATION (NANCY ADAM SUSAN)

Following our appeal
the interest has been
this report.

This- you may remember
signal strength in Bri
the South of England
Europe .

The station uses
mysterious words are
over - pronounced and
why we have had such

for information concerning this station
first class and I am pleased to file

is the station on 5530 kHz at 20.00 hrs;
tain is poor but seems to be better in
good results are best achieved in

the 1948 Phonetic Alphabet and the
n fact NANCY ADAM SUSAN - they are ver
sound like YANK. I E A-DAN 5UZZAN, this i
ifficulties with the station.

The format is

NANCY ADAM SUSAN
QUEEN THOMAS CHARLIE (*3)
NANCY ROBERT 3
GEORGE ROBERT 11

Repeated -

( GTC ) - I have a message for you
NR 3 - Message Number

GROUP - I have 11 groups

The full alphabet used by the station is

Adam , Baker , Char 1 ie , David , Edward , Frank * George , Henry , Ttal y , John ,
King , Lewis , Mary , Nancy , Otto , Peter , Queen , Robert. , Susan , Thomas ,
Union , Victor , Wi 1 1 iam , X-Ray , Young , Zebra .

At the end of the message the station sends ’ROBERT ADAM* twice,
—which is AR in reverse - meaning end of message.

If the station does not have a message it sends the normal
call sign NANCY ADAM SUSAN - followed by 'QUEEN ROBERT UNION*

- QRU - I have no traffic for you. - several Umes

The information in this article was made possible by the
receipt of several cassette recordings and a large monitoring
effort, I would like t o t h a n M a reel i n F r a n c e, A 1 a. n i n
Solihull, Richard in **** and Mike in Ken t for the help we
received .

This s tat ion is also featured in Langley Pierce s book which
provides f u r t he r information o n i t. s b p e? r a t i o ns.

At the present time it is transmitting on the following
sc hedu 1 e «

- NAS - Female Intro/Female Message

- MAS - Female Intro/Male Message

6715 kHz at 16.30 UTC
5530 kHz at 20.00 UTC
4130 kHz at 21.00 UTC

Uie would be very interested in
also area s where the signal
France are at present S2~3
station is located outside Eu
East monitor to take a. listen.

any reports on this station and
strength is good. Readings in
which would suggest that the
rope; we have asked our Middle

5

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COUNT I MS STATION (CYNTHIA VOICE)

Full Message Transmissions

21 « 00 on
00.00 on
18.00 on

18.00 on

21.00 on
21.00 on
21.00 on
21.00 on

Monday

T uesday

Wednesday

Wednesday

Wednesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Thursday

6797/5716

5046

17567/18726
10346/12238
7588 / 5413
9049

6797 / 7588
9049

17.00 on

21.00 on

13.00 on

14.00 on

12.00 on

14.00 or

14.00 on

15.00 on

21.00 on

Friday

Friday

Saturday

Saturday

Sunday

Sunday

Sunday

Sunday

c.

wo -.-oaf

17567/18726
7588 / 5413
10529/ 7547
20872/18225
13555/16086
12110/12168
10723
1 1 123

5715 / 4505

Control Message Transmissions

00.30 7541 / 5205

01.30 7763

06.30 5205 / 9224

07.30 13581/16451

Dai 1 y

13.30 16434/13423

13.30 8560 /11440 Not Same

17.30 5205 8556

NANCY ADAM SUSAN

Please see feature page

GERMAN LANGUASE STATIONS

STATION N N N (Sends letter N in Morse Coos
prior to transmission) .

Heard in the early morning and mid-even mgs .

fcr 5 Minutes

Monday

Wednesday

Thursday

at 21.00 on 4644 Friday
at 21.00 on 5177 Friday
at 20.00 on 4024 (no SS'M)

at. 04.00 or
at 21.00 on

=

THREE NOTE ODDITY (Sends 3 Note Electronic to
prior to transmission ) •

This is a difficult station to find due to i
frequency changes.

Minutes

monthl y

April only-Friday
April only-Friday
April on ly-Saturday
April only— Sunday

at 04.00 on 4327 _ , .

at 19.30 on 4583 (repeat of 04.00 nrsj

at 20.^5 on 6640

at 21-15 on 4751

It was originally thought this station only sent ore broadcast
per week but others have recently b ® in S ^ed. fche turn

The Sunday transmission has changed March's messages all

of the year. January, February and M=.rch s =

feature 5F groups that have never appearec ^

messages . Anothernew feature of the messages sent in 1994 are

. , , . . continued .

r n
1 1
93
re

THREE NOTE ODDITY (CQNT I NUfcD)

the distinct breaks in the groups. So far though, no two
messages have contained consistent blocks o 5 jo ; *
example, January's messages had breaks after ev ry y

wber^cs February's message only had a break . ° n ° f _ or

^ur'count^r^l^^rtL^i^f foir groups ^ so. kind of
mdicatin, th. rjcipljnt. ^TJjr.

groups which appear m the first tour group
of different month's messages.

STA-ION *NUI NOICHEN' (So called due to particular

pronunciation ) .

There are two stations which sound very similar, 'Nui Noichen

another German language station which is

help wf have listed the 3 Figure call numbers heard so far.

NUI NOICHEN - 130,217,273,564,498 774,

OTHER STATION 471 , 527, l&S , t>'2o,842-,3l9

(t ?4 uses <* variant -fonwaV)

vY\kK ^cur&c\

NUI NOICHEN J V ' '

Monday at 20.00 on 0775 - repeated on 5775

Tuesday at 20.00 on 6775 - oepe. . on - - on , 280

Thursday W on «” - "p^tsd on 8,77 and again on ,270

Saturday at 08.00 on ,3485- sending ,4444,456.456,450,000

+ p ho citation sends the Nil identifier for
If no message is sent .he station se freQUPncy . if a message

5 minutes then changes to on t^nP.t frequency after

is sent then the repeat f o a 1 ows - - J, J Ld VuU' .

the message ends. Messago <*« er ' d Wlbl ooo ogo F

qjheR STATION - Always ends transmission with OU^OO .

T h I s 1 5
similar.

not. part of the same organisation

/V\essu.^e^ fio-i f^c t 0rou.p5 verv ^ '

but sounds very

This station is irregular

i^:oo ic4fe£>

Monday at 22.15 on 5315

Tuesday at 22.30 on 4576

Wednesday at 21.30 on 5360

- , 2o ' Zo

GERMAN 2 LETTER STATIONS (Send 2-Le tters ■ of Phone tic ^IphabeU
'Delta Tango, ‘Mike Delta 1 etc, and Electronic tones for^S minutes
starting on hour or half hour, best try 16.00 to 00 . 00 .

-r y7 n -xr~A7 4543 4594 4821 4888

Active Frequencies are; 2707 Z2^.Q ^bZ

50-5 5284 5732 5770 6853 7404 7532 7740 775o 7858 8173 9 ..5
94 M 3 1 so during ssriy ...ning and. *; '

10460 10500 10740 11108 11545 12092 2314 lu57 1 .890 146„

1 5610 16055 16220 16414 17430 18195 18575 194.95 1

Listen out for call signs Mike Delta & Delta
Eng 1 ish .

Mike which are in

7

SWEDISH RHAPSODY (Sends the music bo>: tun e bwedish hf h a p s o d y 5

minutes prior to all broadcasts).

On

Saturday

February 5th

the station

failed to send it s

regular transmission and a

prime time si

ot seems to have been

vacated. The

Swedish Rhaps

ody schedule

is

rather complicated

and

depends on

the week of

the month, ^e

w ;

ill try to reproduce

the

present schedule.

DAY

TIHE

FREQUENCY

1

r>

jL

3

4 5

Hon

2200

5748

#*»

Hon

2230

5748

#t>a.

Hon

2300

5748

Hon

2330

5748

#**-

— .

Tub

0700 NCW

4195

# H z

ltH-2-O - Ojr

Wed

1300

6200

Wed

1600

5748

N<uvitirf “ ftpecir.

Wed

1700

6200 or 5748

JV \€$ iojjt ^n>uj>5 D “* f\

Wed

1900 MCW

4195

C*\c ^ Wt-d j US1 Ck

Wed

2000

5340

— 2- Givi/J: \ ~ O ^{j r A/vcd .

Wed

2200

-5-74# 534 <5

#T><,

# f\

***

Wed

2230

5-74-Q- Sl>AO

#M 7

Wed

2300

5-7-4B

#*>8

#**

Wed

2330

SAAB- SS+o

Aa\-

USB

tr Q.i / I

\l<00 /{0\,

Thu

Thu

0 OOflCW
0 00

5340
6507 « -

Thu

Thu

1900MCW
2000 MC W

5340

5340

#

#

fCiwcU/U AU o

cvrt l<DO *

Thu

2000

5340

#1,

Thu

2100

5340

# lx

N 4 tka. otoe 7wc

Thu

2200

5340

TTSiAi/wi j J i \r\^s

Fr i

NO TRANSH I SS I 0NS

ho \JOO 2 *-*J

Sat

fun

2100

2 3 v o

0000

4779

vm

# r
f >

WO. tvC/vi/V^ ~t>

Sun

1700

5340

*/">-© s/ed

Sun

2100

5340

#C|

^ *£ tVw5\Jh A^ja/v<ico

Sun

2200

3825

# c,

A.o.\t, Jo tdi o •

/AC W

Transmissions start with the

call

sign V for fo

minutes prior

to the jpr£cxiv\to\e. tQ LG

L 0 tO LO 1 0/{$F Id)

Frequencies not at present

active

are 9457

8188 7535 7315 6901

483'

2. We would appreciate any

logs of

Swedish "^apsody at

times other than those listed.

SPANISH STATIONS

One particular station gives good reception in Europe and may
be based closer than the Americas . The station features a
polite YL with the word "Attencion". OpercxV^ diou\^

It Is quite active and well worth listening cut for. Try :

Hon 07.00 5415

Hon 08.00 7530 or 7525

s

SPANISH STATION CONTINUED

Mon 09.00 6795
Tue 09.00 6795
Wed 08.00 7530
Thur 07.00 5415

Fr i

06 . 00

6800

Fri

07.00

7846

Fr i

08.00

7885

Sat

09 . 00

6795

Sun

07.00

5425

Try also

7887 8186 8136 7864 8872 5835 -all possibly

active.

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'Point less'. Mysterious and Bizarre Transmissions

We will define these in our September issue in greater detail

IN ISSUE 6 OF ENIGMA NEWSLETTER _
DEADLINE AUGUST 1ST DEADLINE AUGUST 1ST DEADLINE

AUGUST 1ST

Fart 2 of our Norse Special

"New" Norse Station Log-Book Section
Spying By Numbers - John Griffiths
Plus

Station News and Latest Listening
Simon Nason Writes

9

EftST EUROPEAN AMD RUSSIAN LANGUAGE STA TIONS

'BULGARIAN BETTY 1

Daily at 13.55 to 14.05 on 4487 kHz. Czech
A °( tV.S shsK*^ • Ste *4«r St .

STATION YT YT YT (Sends a morse call sign V prior to and in-
between each message, live female announce'

Monday at 06.30 on 4424 Thursday at 18.00 on 4424 (occasioned )

Monday at 18.00 on 4424 Friday at 20. OC on 4643

Wednesday at 18.00 on 4424

May operate on other days and at other times.

BUGLE STATION

Last heard several years ago this is believed to be part of the
'Ready Ready set up, sends Bugle call prior to messages

Thursday at 19.30 on 4740 only heard once in

Other possible frequencies for this station are, £>& r,5o00
& 5600. The station was quite infrequent even curing Lt 5 more
active period between January 1989 and March 1990.

'GRAVEL VOICE* ( This station uses a very rough =>qu ding Slavic
Male announcer and is again infrequent). Profa^ty

Last reported at 00.00 on 2287 kHz

Again an irregular but very distinctive, also
late 1993 around 3320 kHz in the early morning.

RUSSIAN COUNTING MAN

This is a recent discovery and needs more

station is live with several Male operators, tne rormax

consists of Counts from 1 to 10 and certain phrases. or*.

rar<L.

Try Daily at around 17.58 - 18.03 on 4018 kHz (A*)

Timing is not always accurate so keep trying.

STATION BARBARAR (BARBARA)

Heard in Amsterdam on 17.09.92 and 03.08.93 in the mid
evenings on 4432 kHz, Male Slavic announcer - live voice,

Words like; Karol , Gustav , Josef , Barbarar , Maria, Ursula & in the

second broadcast, Ra j zda , I gor , W 1 ad imi r , Anna , Nicolai , Dmi tri .
Worth listening out for ill.

"ZirC t w ice in

A jo G 3 »vt Hz re <cj { 'or\ ,

scce-tion, the

* S'ec.oivU SWiC o/v \rs ^,/v^va

preb^JoWj "Th skar^ i'cv^-xxi 5WiVajr\Vie- 5 .

5 minutes

prior to all

u L

X ( h» s n d a V V V de LI L X

in CW

messages )

Present trans

missions are

sen t

on the

sc hebu 1 e ;

23.00 - 04.00

3280

5301

11002

05. OC - 08.00

5301

6758

11002

09.00 - 11.00

6758

8141

11002

12.00 - 16.00

6758

8141

14977

17.00 - 21.00

3280

5301

8141

r ■' a i _ = ~ : not

at present

active are

i ow i. ng

6282 and 4601 , some
transmissions are voice and some CW, identification numbers
5 • - stayed the same and the station has not adjusted to BST ,

Russian man

. distinct services continue on a wide range of frequencies,

***- try to look at these in more detail in issue 6.

" jssian Man in Russian — Natural Voice )

Russian Man in Russian - Hollow mechanical soundinq diffo-

~ ussian Nan in English - betweeA Z

"SOVORIT RADIO RAM CHETIRYE* ( w RA1*o RAM fou (L StEAkS,"j

. nope you will not mind if we give this station a mention.

Uie first heard it in October 1993 and have taken a curious
interest in it ever since. It operates on

frequenc ies ;

simul cast

Try

4745 5715 & 6700 at 21.30 on Sunday (as & f<C )

Vou cannot miss the station, it sends a wide (at least 10kHz)
band signal with an ear splitting tone upto 45 minutes

before the message. At approximately 21.33 a live Male or
-emale announcer starts with the words Govorit Ram Chetirye"/

follows about 10 minutes of con versa tiona 1 style

information and sometimes towards the end strings of numbers
inter— spaced with the frequent words Drab/Noi .

It is sent in a mode -b r<soU<_ w'.tWxV s*\V°to\fc reaver . (4745 is the best

audio) and I guarantee it will drive you nuts trying to work
•_/U_ what is going on. It was suggested that the station is
some kind of MEI set up, but I could not Imagine any airliner
try^ to follow this information j I have searched old
magazines (and new ones) along with frequency guides but none
seem to mention this station.

In addition to the Sunday messages I have also heard it on
occasional Monday s^ Wednesday s and Friday s . Real MET

information from the CIS is transmitted regularly on 8939 and
6630 kHz if you wish to compare. At the end of the message the
tone comes back on and the 3 transmitters switch off one at a
tine upto 30 minutes after the broadcast. I can highly
recommend this station if you enjoy an ENIGMA.

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THE 3TRJCH (Sends a 3 figure identification followed by / 00 -
very rarely sends a message but is widespread in both voice
and CW but hard to find due to only 5 minute transmissions ) .

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This is one of the most difficult stations tc follow, some
agents receive daily, some weekly and others only monthly
calls. We have recently noted that 2 new ire-titers have
received CW messages — which^with this static- is . ery rare. &

The station sends voice transmissions in English Berman and
two unidentified Slavic languages; only frer^e-cies known to
be active in April are produced above. ^

The best voice transmission to listen out for _ e at present
operating only on the first Monday of each mo*- - - ac 21.00 on
4465 kHz . Any logs of THE STRICH are very much ar r ia ted .

NEW STAR RADIO (TAIWAN)

We have only received one report of this static-- out I can
confirm that ,‘fcis still operating on 8300 kHz in t*e afternoon
period and in the late evenings.

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We are hoping to produce a feature about Single Letter High
Frequency Beacons for a future issue and would appreciate
log s information and comment concerning these mysterious
operations. No one seems to have successfully identified the
purpose or location of SLHFB ' s .

ACHTUNG ACHTUNG The longest Voice message ever- heard was from
the Russian Man who in March sent 401 groups on 8074 kHz at
19.00 - the message lasted over 2 hours ENDE ENDE ..........

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Letters to ENIGMA

Welcome to Letters to ENIGMA and another packed post bag of
interesting questions, first off languages. . , .Fritz writes
from the South of Switzerland and asks why we deliberately
write our German numbers on the cover in a particular way ?
Fritz says they are written :

Null ,Eins, Zwei ,Drie, Vier , Funf , Sechs , Sieben , Acht ,Neun .

Fritz also says that if you used “Funef " & "Neuen" in daily

language you would be considered nuts 1 The answer to the
question is really not very easy; some stations seem to change
the numbers to make them easier to understand over the air,
also no numbers stations use Zwei because it sounds too much
like Drei so they all use Svc for the number 2. Staying on the
subject Stef fan in Germany tells me that some German numbers
stations still have a Saxon (East German ) accent but are
coming from West Germany, and finally on German numbers Jake
in Amsterdam feels that the 3 Note Oddity voice has a distinct
Austrian inflection [

From German numbers to Russia^ and Peter in Saffron Walden
asks about the "Russian y an ‘ numbers, I am pleased to help
with this question and hope that all our readers will find
this useful; the numbers are spoken" in the following way;

1 Adean , 2 Dva, 3 Tri, £ Chetirye, 5 Pyet, 6 Shest, 7 Syem,

8 Vosyem, 9 Devyet, O Null. I keep this in my log book and
find it really helps when listening for identification and
group counts. Peter also mentions the 2 different "Russian
language" Russian Me^ , the *irst is the one we refer to has
natuaral voice and the second is the one which sounds sort of
tinny or whiny [

Calum in Isle of Lewis Scotland ask if we would review the

new numbers station bock - 'intercepting Numbers Stations by
Langley Pierce. Well. we have pleasure in enclosing a review
written by ENIGMA reader Mike Chace in this issue. .

It is also a pleasure to welcome Mr Ted All beury to the ENIGMA
group, you may have read some of Mr All beury 's books — with
titles such as "Secret Whispers" , "No Place to Hide" & "A
Wilderness of Mirrors". I am sure you can guess the subject
matter .

ACHTUNG ACHTUNG ! - "A GCHQ instructor informed me that... All
Radio Officers must be able to count from 0-9 in all
r P languages and that all countries are doing it " meaning Number

Stations. ENDE ENDE! (anonymous contribution ) .

Moving out of Europe for a moment several readers have asked
if we know of any South African numbers activity ? We are not
aware of any but if any other readers have any information we
would be very happy to receive it.

And right round the World greetings to Ashley in New Plymouth
New Zealand and all at the NZ - DX Times, pleased you enjoy
ENIGMA.

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Staying overseas and on the subject of Lincolnshire Poacher,
our ENIGMA man in Dhahran has been monitoring the high
frequency transmissions on 14487 15682 and 16084 and reports
that the jamming (which is very strong in Britain) is very
weak in Saudia Arabia, He suggests that the jamming
transmitters may be situated in Europe. In a bid to locate
Lincolnshire Poacher I am asking for anyone who may be
visiting Cyprus to contact ENIGMA', the other interesting thing
about Lincolnshire Poacher is the new "LP2" second service
(see station news) which is very distant Indeed; could this be
situated In the Far East ?

Marcel In France sent in some interesting points, he ask if
DFC37 and DFD21 were perhaps rented to the US Forces in
Germany to send messages to people in Eastern Countries, after
all the German Government gave facilities to Radio Liberty and
Radio Free Europe.

Marcel also wonders If some of the messages may be for spy-
fishing vessels roving In European waters; perhaps they use
cryptographs to avoid the mis-ad venture of the US vessel
PUEBLO which was caught by the North Koreans with KW7 crypto
machines on-board.

ACHTUNG ACHTUNG ! - Did you know the British spy Geoffrey Prime
was using a Grundig Satellite (maybe model 1000 the old model
with the S-lieter in the centre front panel) a receiver given

to him by the Russians i ENDE ENDE{ (anonymous contribution).

Michiel write3 from Doom in the Netherlands and is DX editor
of the "Radio Amateur Magazine" back in 1985 Michiel heard a
numbers transmission In the 49 mb, at 6135 kHz, he wrote to
the users of this frequency ~ Radios- Free Europe and Radio
Polonia, both replied with verification \ (copies of which we
received at ENIGMA] - as Michiel says,, the mystery deepens.

Now a letter from Bill m Maidenhead who asks about direction
finding, Bill wonders if It is worth Investing in a

directional loop ? This is a subject I would like to ask

other readers to help with ! The professionals use very

sophisticated equipment but is it possible t.o build something
yourself ? Any technical experts who would like to send in

information would be very welcome. Another reader in Wales
suggested buying some old DF equipment, from the surplus store
~ again any information would be appreciated.

May I take this opportunity to thank everyone who wrote to us
recently and for the information we have received.

WHY YOUR LOGS ARE I MPORTANT .... every single station log we
receive is entered onto a sheet for each station; the sheet
covers Monday to Sunday 00.00 to 23.00 hrs and we Insert the

frequency in the space. These sheets build up the operating

patterns times and frequencies and provide the basis of our

ENIGMA Logbook and Latest Listening Section - the most up to

date and accurate Information is provided by YOU ! THANK YOU.

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It is no surprise, given all of the major changes in Eastern
Europe in the last 5 years, that the Number Station scene has
-irrored these events. Many stations have disappeared forever,
relics of a distant age - however ore at least has risen from
che grave. Know to Number Station monitors as Bulgarian Betty
this station haunted the airwaves for many years with its 333
~p 555 call up in the Czech language....

Si Si Si Pyat Pyat Pyat. An acquaintance of mine who used to
be in the Finnish border guard told me of the many times he
-^ad to endure this station as Betty used their frequency of
-1030 kHz night after night.

In December 1990 the station vanished but some time later in
j u l y of 1993 a friend at RAF Chi cksands found the station on
5311 kHz at 13.55 UTC with a very short call up of 555 555 555
-og 99 Q 990 02 until 14.00 when it repeated a single 5F group.
_ater in the year it moved to 6976 and more recently 4485 kHz.
The station was also noted on 2^th September 1993 with what
seem to be a one off broadcast on 7541 at 10.15 and 8026 at^
11 . 00 .

Stations that have remained off the air include the Four Mote
Rising Scale station which .as formerly on 3217 & 3820 kHz and
the Gong station which used to haunt 3258 kHz every night,
^hese two East German Stasi stations both ended around May
1990. The Four Note Rising Scale station was the subject of
direction finding activity by an ENIGMA member in Western
Europe who reports the transmissions emanated from an area on
the axis joining Berlin to Wittenberg, from a
between 20 and 50 km South West of Berlin.

site located

The Rumanian Skylark used
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activities around March
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least since August 1992.
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ost style call up (recently revealed
to be the Italian song 'll Silenzio'
military marching piece was sent and
ced her 5 figure groups. After a long
ecently reported again on 4740 kHz.

In November 1992 the long running Papa November also wound u
it s long career and was followed a month later by the closur
of DFC37 and DFD21 . It was believed that these stations were

operated by the West German intelligence service

Bundesnachrichtendienst BND with traffic from DFC/DFD
aimed at East Germany from transmitters located at Bonames
just outside Frankfurt.

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live on within the vast operation of the German Two Letter
stations, indeea some agent numbers have ^been tagged on to
current active call signs such as RD KR EL DT GK NU PZ and EG.

One of the more recent stations to leave the airwaves was the
Five Dashes station which used the mogadon influenced young
lady to send it s messages after signing on with 353 figure
call signs. This English and german language station sent it s
last message in mid April of 1993, so no longer can we hear
the unf orgettable voice saying "Seeben N o y n e r Ffunf Eins"
in that c harac ter is t ic drawl .

Recent 'scares' have included the NNN ... station which sends
a string of C.W. dahdits prior to it s German messages and the
station Swedish Rhapsody which recently vacated it s Saturday
evening prime time slot on 4779 5340 and 65©7 *Hz . I'm pleased
to say that both stations have been found alive and well after
some anxious moments of tuning about the short wave dial .

These then have been some of the stations that have gone off
the air within the last five years, hopefully for our small
and specialised section of the short wave hobby the Number
Stations will continue in one form or another ..... and as some
stations depart the air other new one s will appear. The
C.I.A. spy scandal in February of this year shows that the
notion that spying was somehow over after the cold war ended,
a view which prevailed in some area s of the news media was
somewhat naive to say the least.

The numbers are still with us

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TYROLEAN MUSIC STATION - UPDATE

On the subject of stations which are no longer on the air you
may recall in issue 3 that we ran a feature about one of the
very early Number Stations called the yroiean Yusic Station
- this station was very active during the 19 C s and operated
on Saturday s and Sunday s on 6425 & 6660 kHz. The format

included music and a 7 note orchestral interval signal taken
from the Communist Internationale. At 12.00 a German Language
male operator would announce the names of the agents e.g.
Heinrich, Fowler, Dover. Messages would then follow for the
agents, each separately with no group count.

We asked for any information about this station and are
pleased to report that Short Wave Magazines - ’’Off The Record
Page" edited by Andy Cadier carried the following information
in January 1994.

•« On the subject of spy stations, John Franklin of Ripley
sheds some light on the Tyrolean Music Station, also mentioned
in October. He, while in Germany, used direction finding
techniques to trace this broadcast to Burg in what was then
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taken from an article in the American magazine
9 ^imes, but we feel sure that ENIGMA readers will

- _ - - ^ interesting. Nils Schif f hauer takes up the story.

_ w £ ven in the United States there was heard a. station with
rail sign EC3Y , which was assumed to transmit from
sowewraes-e m Spain. Mo l you guessed wrong the first time ! .

signal around 9.1 mHz originates from BFST at Krumweg
sz£Z_o<n in Husum , North Germany I verified that only a

^ - »gr meters away from the antenna after the signal over—

--- red my car radio. As a Sho-t Wave Listener I am used to
Mriting reports in order to get a GSL card. So I wrote what
rr. s „ -= the very first reception report to a German numbers

station - having the right address, and being 1007. sure about
crl gin of the transmissions . The answer came bitter/sweet
- - politely ; they "on principle will not verify reception

; yours sincerely...

5 i~ce I'm not "building castles in Spain" this answer was
actual !y more than I expected. But speaking of Spain — is not
EC3> a callsign to be used in Spain r-ather than in Germany ?

After looking it up in "international treaties" it turned out
----- EC3Y was a call sign for a novice ham license in Madrid.
— - 5 - left me puzzled. I considered it a clear case of illegal
== a call sign. And not cnly that, it was by a Government
aBthority supposedly looking after the fulfilment of inter—
-=:ic'al treaties 1

= i-ice these days the Deutsche Bund es post is in tensive 1
controlling the (illegal) use of scanners, I asked them t
a 1 =c to look after the violation of international law under
- - = own roof • Within one -*eek I got a phone cal l^f r ofn the
= T t. It revealed the BFST used their callsign EC3Y for
transmissions toward Spain, and would change the same day the
“T called me - to a legal one

loved lately after hanging up, I jumped to my Yaesu FT -1000 to
Verify that. And they really did . since the 20th of January
1=5^2, they no longer use EC-3Y for their transmissions, the new
call siqn is DEA47 which is in accordance with international

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simulcast frequencies.

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-lease let us have your traffic analysis for future issues of

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THE ENIGMA STORY BY RICHARD FuttELL ENIGMA READER

"ENIGMA" 5 - a riddle - puzzling thing or person. This was the

definition given in issue No. i of E.I.G.fi.A. Many people who
share our interest will also know it was a very successful
World War 2 off line cypher machine used by the German Army,
Air Force and Navy, It offered a very secure and quick way of
enciphering messages in the field, in fact the Germans
considered it an unbreakable cypher.

How did it work 7 „ The basic machine was contained in a small
suitcase size box. There were three main parts, a keyboard
with complete alphabet but no figures, twenty six lamps

illuminating letters "A" to "Z", and a set of three rotors.
Each rotor had 26 evenly spaced contacts on both sides and

letters A to Z marked on it's circumference. Contacts on one

face were connected to the other in random manner and, for
example the "A" contact might be connected to the "W" . When a
key was pressed then an electrical circuit was made through
the rotors to the lamp board . This alone woulc not have been
very secure producing only a simple lono-a 1 phabet ic

substitution , however, each time a key was pressed the code
wheels were rotated one step rather like the tiles on a car
odometer, a different substitution was made and the
corresponding lamp illuminated.

The story of how the code was broken is told in several books.
More interesting is why it took so long for this information
to be released. There are several reasons for this. After the
war many of these machines were given to friendly countries

and the knowledge that we could read their supposedly secure

traffic would not have been in our interest. Roto machines
were not only used by the Germans. Britain had the "Type X"

and the United States the Haglin M-2Q9. After the war there

were similar but much improved versions with wore rotors and
different stepping arrangements. These too were issued to
friendly powers, in fact advanced rotor cyphers were certainly
in use with the United Kingdom's military up- to the mid
1970's,

The advent of small pocket calculator computer based equipment
was probably it's death knells the electro-mechanical versions
requiring expensive skilled maintenance and servicing.

For those of you who would like to re-live the past and have a
home computer, may I suggest simulating ENIGMA on your screens
7. A basic language version is listed in George Sassoon's
book, detailed below.

Suggested further reading.

The Radio Hackers Code Book ~ George Sassoon Duckworth.
(Listings for ENIGMA to run on Sinclair Spectrum)

Cypher Systems — Beker & Piper Northwood Books.

( Descri ptions and solutions for Haglin M-209)

Seizing The ENIGMA — David Kahn Souvenir Press.

(The Story of how the ENIGMA Cypher was Solved)

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ENIGMA BOOKSHELF - /VCT/gE« ONE

" Intercepting Numbers Stations" by Langley Pierce
Interproducts ISBN 095-19783-47, 1994,94 pp

Dqb\ be fooled by the rather American sounding title and the sensationalist "Top Secret" cover
ml iSes bo ok is an excellent addition to the Numbers monitor's armoury. We’ve been waiting for
une for an up-to date book to cover the developments in the European scene ever since
Smcsa Mason's "Secret Signals" was published. The book is no doubt the result of some careful
- : wk : ring and the blurb tells us that this was accomplished over a period of some seven years of
■raifnrinr

Tie book is grouped by intelligence communities - CIA (USA), M16 (Great Britain), BND
Gennany), UDBA (Yugoslavia) and the KGB. Each such section then presents the details of
if* transmission format broadcast by its stations Herein lies my main criticism, in that the link
between many stations and their operators is, to say the least, tenuous. For example - why is
Swedish Rhapsody operated by Austrian Intelligence? The author often omits any evidence or
salination for this assertions.

Nevertheless, each section is well laid out with the details of each station's characteristics,
tsrasage format and content, frequencies, times and, most usefully, pronunciation. Where it has
: tec possible to determine a station's schedule, this information is also included often in tidy
format. If I could suggest any improvement on each section's content, it would be the
aridkk>n of information concerning the agents or addressees to which each stations directs its
riff: This often helps differentiate between stations with similar characteristics and when new
fcir ons take on old agents and thereby provide clues as to the operator. The book concentrates
sc&dy upon voice transmissions whereas we know that there are many Morse numbers stations,

: rer operated by their voice counterparts. "Ready, Ready" is an example of such a station which
: rentes on both voice and Morse.

Tic book's information is fairly well up-to-date and also contains a reasonable amount of relevant
historical information, for example, the East German section. The book ends with the usual
fccqweoc y list and bibliography. Obviously, with a book which is very much the author's sole
- oric without reference to others, means that you'll have to spend some time in matching usual
saeae names with this book's "KGB, format 2" style 1

1: this a good, well- written book, up-to-date and well-detailed. I'd recommend that

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MORSE NUMBER STATIONS - AN ENIGMA
SPECIAL FEATURE

Although generally not as noticeable as voice stations there
are many active morse stations to be found. Lacking
distinctive tunes and voices many listeners may feel that
inese stations are less interesting, but this should nt be so
- 5 they are all part of the numbers game, and if anything, the
lack of any identifiable language, makes them even more
anonymous and mysterious.

For those of you new to this and who may be off put by having
to learn morse, this need not be so. Letters are rarely used
so only the numbers 9-0 need to be learned. Identifiers are
repea ted so often and usually slowly - that it s not difficult
t:o log these.

- few points worth noting in order to positively identify
crese stations - remember we have no language or accent to go
b T - include such things as speed, endings, calls, paired or
single groups and form of zeroes. ( Some stations send long
zeroes ~ five dashes - others short - a single dash).

Morse monitors are desperately needed so, here, to whet
appetite are a few of the more frequent stations. All
a^e easy to find ~ morse number stations, luckily for us,
-end to avoid the busy maritime bands where morse is
-eard. (Regular listeners will come to recognise the mil
and diplomatic morse transmissions - which often operate
long periods, and learn to ignore them).

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Let's look at some of the well known stations.

SWEDISH RHAPSODY - This is the morse counterpart of that
fa«iliar cheap music box — German language station. The format
is similar to the voice transmissions with no obvious
icertif iers .

^□rmat : Medium speed MCW, Long Zero s (Example only)

■ U repeated for 10 minutes before the hour.

□n the hour " LOLD LOLO LOLO 4B621_48621 / “ repeated for 5

• mute until 5 past the hour. Then BT BT Message °* 50 ,, or l?, 0
Engle 5 figure groups. If the message is 50 groups the LOLU

—8 £>21 BT BT" precedes the repeat). „ a S

Transmission ends at 26 minutes past the hour wx th
S< meaning — end of message end of work.

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SWEDISH RHAPSODY CONTINUED.

Schedule - Week commencing Saturday -

2nd Week of Month

3rd Week of Month
4th Week of Month

Tuesday @
Wedneday @
Thursday @
Wednesday®

07.00

20 . 00

19.00 & 20
00.00

on

4195

on

4195

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5340

on

5340

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u- ^ 'X/ 'X/ A/ 'V *

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2) STATION AR The Morse Version of N N N . ms network of
morse t ransmiss ions is far more extensive than the voice
version and has a regular schedule, as does N N N. it also uses
the same frequencies. Transmissions a^e usually CW, but
occasionally MCW , medium speed and always very strong - often
the key clicks can be heard upto 30 kHz on either side of the
carrier frequency.

Frequencies used are 4025# 4054# 4573# 4643# 488z 4945# 5738

5880# 6850# 6995# 6770 7650# 8180# 8623
9131 9268# 9120# (# also used by NNN ) .

This is a very active station sending several transmissions
daily, sometimes 2 at the same time. Identifiers change
gradually over the years, but some such as IS1 and 621 have
been heard since the 1970' s. The present active identifiers
include 131 181 237 401 522 621 712 723 726 735 812 815 827

849 945 & 962.

On the 25th of October 1993 a one off transmission was made on
11540 kHz at 07.00 addressed to 131. This 20 group message had
a fault on the tape and was repeated when rectified at 07.10
UTC. A further repeat then took place on 13963 at 08.00. Like
it s voice service NNN - Station GR normally works below 10
mHz and would appear to be a European operation. Perhaps 131
works out of Europe - the only other frequency used by this id
has been 9268.

Unlike NNN with it s restricted group count of 15 20 25 30 35
Station 'AR' group counts can vary from 20-85. Schedules can be
made for Station %~R‘ but more work would be necessary. Most
identifications are used and active times are between 04.00
and 07.00 on the hour and 12.00 and from 17.00 to 22.00 hrs
on the hour. Only once has it been heard on the half hour at
04.30 UTC. The station transmits every day of the week except
Fr iday .

Format : 3 figure iden ti f ication repeated until 5 minutes

past the hour, (slowly). then, GR38 fallowed by message of for
example 38pairs of 5 figure groups - sent faster.

"AR GR38 - repeat of message - AR" . Uses a Long Zero.

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3) 0 L X - This is the Morse version of the well known voice
station. Short zero, CW, fast. The format : "V V V de OLX OLX"
repeated for 5 minutes before the hour, then, faster 126 126
126 BT Oil Oil repeated from the top of the hour for 5
minutes. Uses the same frequencies as the voice version and
cs<es up about 507. of the transmissions .

'ne message then fallows in paired 5 figure groups. The Call
sign V V V means calling and de - means from . The figures Oil
'11 never change and appear pointless, io's <^e_ r^^lar pv«<i«ckxbu_ .

■5) THE THREE LONG DASHES - T ^:s is probably the easiest one
for 'beginners in Morse as it s entire transmissions are always
si;.-.. It uses CW and short zeroes.

-squencies are 3892 4272 448: 4665 4153 5433 5572 5622 5666

--T.7 6735 6857 7426 8155 9234 9057 9097 9129 9342 10283

: 1476.^6884 5474 54 it 7 030 kSM 4Yt- r T5 > 4-487 5247 4Z7Z. /fu. fA£($J)

Z rectifications logged so far : 149 203 272 352 411 421 458

-1" 679 732 781 823 864 9C3 926 967 347 27/ If*

_ - iE is a very active static but it s schedule appears to^be^
i -regular, A n*re ^ tuj ocC tHu UQ etr

Format : Repeated 3 figure identification for 5 minutes
1 hour or half hour, e.g. 903 903 then BT 110 24 BT

•fc I lowed by message of 24 single 5 figure groups, ThenBT ; 903
_5 repeated 12 times 110 24 BT" followed by repeat of

message. Ends "BT three long dashes). The figure

severe the group count i - : this example 110 always appears to
:e between 106 and 140, ery often 11- . This station has been
-=srd at all times of day and night.... but never on a Friday.

5 3 SHORT DASHES - MOW , fast, with short zeroes.

~~i 5 station uses parallel ^'•equencies 6725//5805 4660//5425
r 538/ / 6280 6508//7434, I have also heard it around 8.2 mHz and
on 4370 5155 5662 and 7381, and very likely other frequencies
= --ist. Sunday Monday & Wednesday only, very often at 17,00 but
ale- noted at 07.00 09.00 09.55 15.00 22.00 and 05.30 UTC .

identif ications logged so * a ^ : 109 193 293 463 481 556 546.

~-e = e are heard frequently.

'arma t : "556 556 556 ... -epeated for 5 minutes - then

2- 24 11 11 BT BT Message of 11 pairs of 5 figure groups

f ol low at much faster speed .

E~z_~gs slow down again ET BT 24 24 11 11 O 0 0 ", often the
*. ,r 5 " 5 f ’: 55 ion 5 contain 2 or even 3 messages in which case end
z~ * i r s t messages runs BT 37 24 24 11 11 293 293 293 97 97
2 T 73 BT " would be followed by 2nd message (for 293) of 33
g-ouos, which would end 97 97 33 33 0 O 0 . b*jx>ckt eUKt- 2 T or g F

3— c^p counts vary between 11 & 42 and average about 30.

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) 3 + 3 SHORT DASHES - CW fast, short zeroes,

rom the frequencies used is this clearly a world - wide
operation 4642 4636 5066 5124 5236 526" 3 7 69 5787 5940 6857

6870 6880 7335 7523 7790 7935 8005 5035 8168 9195 9237

10117 10131 12172 12205 10235 13417 14815 17425 and probably

many more . . -

Identifiers heard so far : 026 037 137 139 147 439 268 276 304
314 392 462 691 783 825 835 875 926 981.

Transmissions may begin at any 5 minute interval within the
hour at any time of day or night, 7 days a week.

Format : Calls "926 926 926 0 0 0"

message is to follow or otherwise,

5 minutes if no

431 84"
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and not
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zero Russian Man.
962 962 2

aster "431 84

message which
ceat occurs later
e~ds slowly with
station format is
the "Nui Moichen" voice scacion and the six
A two message transmissio - wo^ld begin "962

"926 926 926 1" then much
(the decoding key may be 4 figures
is then 84 5 figure groups. The
in the same transmission. The static
0 0 0 " after a short pause. The

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x 'y Aj *y Aj *\t 'V/

7 ) THE 5 DASHES - Heard less frequently than
but is nevertheless active several times ce-

identif ications logged so far : 102 and 897, is

MCW and sends it s messages very fast (
seconds), however id's a"~e quite slow.

all the above,
•nenth. Only two
always uses
Group every 2.5

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Frequencies heard are 7738 8170 8180 9170 9319 9446. *'40

Format: Repeat identifications for 5 min-
or half hour e.g. 897 897 897... then "745 745
message then follow 127 very fast pa
groups, ending BT BT 745 745 127 127

Times for this station logged
19.30 20.30 UTC .

are 06.00 07.00

* Asecond d i f feren t station ending in 5 dashe

:e 5 on the hour
127 127 BT BT "
.*-5 cf 5 figure
(s 1 ow 1 y ) .

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1-.00 19.00 20.00

?cently began.

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8 ) THE STRICH - This is the morse counterpart of the voice
station which transmits in English, Germa^ and two unknown
Slavic Languages . The station has not been heard to send a
voice or CW/MCW message for over 2 years but Coes appear often
and sends the special / 00 a five minute identif ication -

such as 261/00 but no message, recent frequencies include 4090
5150 5550 and 6950 . The station is however prone to sudden
changes to it s operating patterns. Speeds vary considerably
usually slow. Operates <a Sc.he.cWUi. . *04 caVva '°-J s appear

Morse identifers heard for this station are CW, 018 019 042
043 044 287 503 552 553 558 588 and MCW, 035 284 508.

5o7 047 o*7

Transmissions end " BT - (018 lasts 10 minutes).

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, ,, Hndi; D f interesting noises, you

s.e is -full of all kinds o 1 nands to hear them;

= -- .enture outside the ° ~ f communications

Known and recognised forms o .. ..i et ' s

-I- -.thorised transmitters....and some

_ 5 - a handful.

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on 4625 kHz for at

'east the last 10 years ;
■*>* -■ - „ . v ^ is '-, jne in almost anytime

_ to know Just what it 1 • . in 3lG INT - Sept

will hear it. Harry ^- : _ = d-7-n has been heard in

M,"?5 kHz - this particular C s yet no one has

IT States and Europe for several years, ye
d- a definite location or purpose.

, , . h , l77 Simon Mason writes "the buzzer

t was not alway= 3 b -y- _ it wa s 10 years ago.

. is not exactly the same as x

W 3 z

short pulse

S a bi'ui u r u .

station but the rate seemed

. . f RF scu-ding like a

dot in C.W.

to be

around 1 • 5 bo £

rhp - ,, ze r changed around 5 years
333 in France writes " to the hour it used to

x, a 'Dip' and at " ^ 1q m

a continuous rising a falling scale .

- - - =ar old mystery ? Fritz in

.a: can we learn aboui a ;1 is 4625.40 kHz and

‘elder, Switzerland writes ; ^duration of each burst is

a -rie is a contra f 1 -hift 150 Hz. (?)

-i=: with a pause of 14c; •-=- "i^' apd the bit length 3.4

Of bits P* r .. bU & r L 2 = A.M. corner

*x*X. __ Buzzer turned up on

weekend of February
and later moved

ices

Lb le

to confirm

I have since heard

,o-k iP94 the Buzzer turned up on
using two receivers u
"!_ = signal was synchronized with

t around the 3.3 mHz area.

. et --oean evenings you may f.eai

f Eou tune to 4625 kHz m t..e fnur figure number,

signal on the frequency eendi. g 3 hQurs ijTC . Why

» arf 6er is i" fact th<? send this is also a

D C — - should find it necessa- y to

a-e beginning to gee c- e
= av0 you with a m y to - - ¥

f the puzzle ie solved.

‘eeiing that we are going to
e n a r t if not

do not despair - part

am pleased to confirm

:an

exclusively

r , . _ * i-hp 4625 kHz

: ev eai the _ i°ation n we have received
•»-, from direction finding ^ the Polish border in

— «•* « stin

a- ENIGMA-

5

Now you may recall how the Buzzer grew up from a 'pip' to a
buzz. I asked ENIGMA reader Mike in Kent to have a listen to
some other rather odd noises and this is his report.

The 'Pip '

This transmits on 3757 kHz in the European evenings, I
described it as a fake time signa 1 . . . Mike reports 3757 kHz in
the middle of the shared marine (fixed) and amateur band. Best
signal 3754 kHz (slight drift) it may be a "fake" time

signal but it's very accurate, 200 msec tone 1 sec repeat with
no variations. My initial thought was a distorted SLHFB but the
spacing is all wrong. I have 1 is terP* every day at different
times but heard no i den t. i f i ca t ion so that rules out a
propagation beacon. (Re«ie»\^Lj vt k^\<> also ust<l 54 60 ^ hot aoV <4 av>

376 7)

The Echo

This started out on 4080 kHz but is now on 4119 kHz.

Very narrow signal centred on 4080 kHz;

it transmits a 1000 Hz tone followed by a 2000 Hz tone with no
break. The tone duration is a constant 1500 msec but the
interval varies from 2.5 msec shortest to 6 sec longest. The
normal duration is 4.5 sec. The frequency (4080 kHz) lies
exactly half way between marine duplex channels 6 & 7 these

are 4078.5 & 4081.6. Mik.e suggests a possible Soviet Maritime

beacon of sorts but wonders if the echo is the result of a
weaker long path signal ?. (Us^aWu WrsV of ua Modulated carrier

, CA( y)

The Crackle

In AM on 5494 and SSB on 5505 this signal is audible in the
—evenings and causes interference to Shannon Air Radio on
5598. The signal is quite strong and sends a random crackle
noise for hours on end. Mik.e writes... I was so intrigued I
borrowed a audio spectrum analyzer and high speed digital
storage scope — but no result - the "crackle" is so random
that the audio analyzer can't lock on to any patterns and the
storage scope did not overlay any 2 patterns even after 3
hours . fMiso KcctrJ l e/\ 8020 <v\c\ ses/ztx\\ ©rK -f

ENIGMA wrote to Shannon Air Radio to ask if they had received
any complaints; we cannot imagine airliners enjoying this
random sound when collecting information, but at the time of
printing we have received no reply. Another reader informs
ENIGMA that any complaints of interference to these types of
transmissions would be dealt with by the Governmen t-con tro 1 1 ed
radio direction finding station DTI/ Baldock (Monitoring
Station). They have accurate DF and with other international
monitoring stations are able to pin point sources of
interference.

We hope you have enjoyed this short piece on "odd noises"
feel that these come under the scope of ENIGMA, along
voice and morse number stations and SLHFB ' s all in all
unexplained ENIGMA'S of Short Wave.

and

with

the

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